iTunes Review

These songs were chosen by Robert Smith himself, carefully culled to show the band’s progression in the '80s from jittery, punk-bred guitar pop, to gloomy atmospheric goth originators and, lastly, to a synth-driven disco-pop. Having them all in one place provides a neat and tidy overview of their impressive career, which is still unfolding some thirty years after their inception.

Customer Reviews

For Those Who Are Starting To Like The Cure Buy This

by
Mr. Poppadoppolous

For those of you who arent familiar with any fo their famous works, then this might be a start for everyone. Also, it has two new tracks.I highly recommend that ppl get this one.

Good cd but its missing songs

by
uncledad

This is a really good greatist hits cd, but it falls into the typical greatist hits format of leaving off just enough good songs to make you go buy more of their cds. "Pictures of you" isn't there along with quite a few other goodies.

iTunes, can you help us out please...

by
Joe Mejia

and add some of their videos, please. like, maybe all of them? I'd buy a few, I would!!!

Biography

Formed: 1976 in Crawley, England

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Out of all the bands that emerged in the immediate aftermath of punk rock in the late '70s, few were as enduring and popular as the Cure. Led through numerous incarnations by guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith (born April 21, 1959), the band became well-known for its slow, gloomy dirges and Smith's ghoulish appearance, a public image that often hid the diversity of the Cure's music. At the outset, the Cure played jagged, edgy pop songs before slowly evolving into a more textured outfit. As one of the...